Adrian Utley's Studio Equipment

He talks about using his Great British Spring Reverb @ around the 6:08 mark in the attached video.

Saying "We used my Great British Spring Reverb a lot on that."

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In this video, the interviewer is lucky enough to be invited into Adrian Utley's private studio and compare his real Echoplex EP3 with the Jim Dunlop EP 101 EP3 preamp emulator. We also get Ade's thoughts on tape echo what to use live.

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In the video "Adrian Utley (Portishead)'s Synth Collection Tour" by SourceDistributionTV, Adrian Utley is briefly seen with a Trident Series 75 mixer at the 9:36 mark.

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You can see the Yamaha spx90 around 0:09 min mark in the attached video.

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At the 10:26 mark of this video the EP4 is shown beside Adrian Utley's Arturia Microbrute

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In a June 1995 Sound On Sound interview Utley said:

Adrian's love affair with all things analogue extends to his home studio setup: "I've got a Kenton Pro2 MIDI/CV interface for my Roland SH101, SH09, ARP Odyssey and Pro One synths."

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At 4:17 in the video. The TR-808 can be seen at the very bottom of the video.

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You can the the Roland @ the 1:05 mark of the attached video.

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You can see the Bentley Rhythm Ace FR6 @ the 3:23 mark in the attached video.

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You can see the Akai S3000XL just barely @ around 9:44min mark in the attached video.

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You can see 2 Kenton PRO 2000's at the 2:45 mark in the attached video.

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Video, "Polyend visits Adrian Utley" at his recording studio in Bristol, England. The Polyend Seq sequencer is clearly visible from this time: https://youtu.be/UlyT36RQY4E?t=31 , sequencing a Symmons SS8 drum synthesizer, which Adrian is listening to through his headphones. The video is an official video, on Polyend's YouTube music equipment channel, with the text "This time we had an occasion to visit Ade's Utley Bristol-based studio where he's working with many great instruments including Polyend Perc and Seq". The video was published on 25th January 2019.

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In a June 1995 Sound On Sound interview, Utley says:

I asked Adrian if he multisamples his old monosynths so he can effectively play chords: "I do that, but you can't use any kind of massive filter or modulation effects because it'll go weird over the pitch range, so you have to use the internal facilities in the sampler. I did have a Roland S330, which is quite good in that respect, but I've just flogged it because I'm going to get an Akai S1000. Geoff uses an S1000 and I've got an S950, which is also really excellent. Even though it's 12-bit it's got a grainy sound which I really like."

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At 3:41 in the video. The Rhythm Ace can be seen on the top left.

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At 9:52 in the video. "Lots of outboard."

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Quoted on the official product page.

"This is just brilliant, amazing."

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in this video, the Polyend Seq is clearly sequencing the Simmons SDS 8

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at 0:45 in the video, the Roland CR-8000 can clearly be seen in the background

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Part of Utley's studio, as pictured and specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

The rare vintage outboard in Utley's studio includes, clockwise from top left: Astronic A1671 graphic EQ, Neumann WE95 EQs, Pye stereo compressor and Vortexion Type 5 mixer — signed by Tom Jones!

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Part of Utley's studio, as pictured and specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

The rare vintage outboard in Utley's studio includes, clockwise from top left: Astronic A1671 graphic EQ, Neumann WE95 EQs, Pye stereo compressor and Vortexion Type 5 mixer — signed by Tom Jones!

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Part of Utley's studio, as pictured and specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

The rare vintage outboard in Utley's studio includes, clockwise from top left: Astronic A1671 graphic EQ, Neumann WE95 EQs, Pye stereo compressor and Vortexion Type 5 mixer — signed by Tom Jones!

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Part of Utley's studio, as pictured and specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

The rare vintage outboard in Utley's studio includes, clockwise from top left: Astronic A1671 graphic EQ, Neumann WE95 EQs, Pye stereo compressor and Vortexion Type 5 mixer — signed by Tom Jones!

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For general tone and feel, Adrian Utley has a huge amount of vintage gear, which is pressed into service as often as possible — Neumann and Calrec EQs, Pye, Urei and Teletronix compressors and limiters, a pair of Neve 1272 preamps, Astronic graphic EQs, Vortexion and Binson four–channel mixers — the Vortexion signed by Tom Jones after a session that blew Adrian away with the power of his voice. There's also an Ursa Major Space Station SST–282 from the late '70s, the one with the preset called 'Fatty'.

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Part of Utley's studio, as specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

For general tone and feel, Adrian Utley has a huge amount of vintage gear, which is pressed into service as often as possible — Neumann and Calrec EQs, Pye, Urei and Teletronix compressors and limiters, a pair of Neve 1272 preamps, Astronic graphic EQs, Vortexion and Binson four–channel mixers — the Vortexion signed by Tom Jones after a session that blew Adrian away with the power of his voice. There's also an Ursa Major Space Station SST–282 from the late '70s, the one with the preset called 'Fatty'.

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Part of Utley's studio, as specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

More recent outboard includes Thermionic Culture's Phoenix valve compressor and Culture Vulture valve overdrive, BSS DPR402, and SPL's Transient Designer 2, and, from an earlier era, but a recent acquisition, a Yamaha SPX90, bought from a BBC engineer after the recent Later sessions for £80. "You can arpeggiate with the pitch–shift, and I really like the graininess. It's probably derived from a later SPX model, but I really like the effects in my Yamaha 02R, as well."

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Part of Utley's studio, as specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

More recent outboard includes Thermionic Culture's Phoenix valve compressor and Culture Vulture valve overdrive, BSS DPR402, and SPL's Transient Designer 2, and, from an earlier era, but a recent acquisition, a Yamaha SPX90, bought from a BBC engineer after the recent Later sessions for £80. "You can arpeggiate with the pitch–shift, and I really like the graininess. It's probably derived from a later SPX model, but I really like the effects in my Yamaha 02R, as well."

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Part of Utley's studio, as specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

More recent outboard includes Thermionic Culture's Phoenix valve compressor and Culture Vulture valve overdrive, BSS DPR402, and SPL's Transient Designer 2, and, from an earlier era, but a recent acquisition, a Yamaha SPX90, bought from a BBC engineer after the recent Later sessions for £80. "You can arpeggiate with the pitch–shift, and I really like the graininess. It's probably derived from a later SPX model, but I really like the effects in my Yamaha 02R, as well."

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Part of Utley's studio, as specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

More recent outboard includes Thermionic Culture's Phoenix valve compressor and Culture Vulture valve overdrive, BSS DPR402, and SPL's Transient Designer 2, and, from an earlier era, but a recent acquisition, a Yamaha SPX90, bought from a BBC engineer after the recent Later sessions for £80. "You can arpeggiate with the pitch–shift, and I really like the graininess. It's probably derived from a later SPX model, but I really like the effects in my Yamaha 02R, as well."

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Part of Utley's studio, as specified in this November 2008 Sound on Sound interview.

More recent outboard includes Thermionic Culture's Phoenix valve compressor and Culture Vulture valve overdrive, BSS DPR402, and SPL's Transient Designer 2, and, from an earlier era, but a recent acquisition, a Yamaha SPX90, bought from a BBC engineer after the recent Later sessions for £80. "You can arpeggiate with the pitch–shift, and I really like the graininess. It's probably derived from a later SPX model, but I really like the effects in my Yamaha 02R, as well."

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